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During 1612–1757, the East India Company set up “factories” (trading posts) in several locations, mostly in coastal India, with the consent of the Moghul emperors or local rulers. Its rivals were the merchant trading companies of Holland and France. By the mid-18th century, three “Presidency towns”: Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta had grown in size.
During the period of Company rule in India, 1757–1858, the Company gradually acquired sovereignty over large parts of India, now called “Presidencies.” However, it also increasingly came under British government oversight, in effect sharing sovereignty with the Crown. At the same time it gradually lost its mercantile privileges.
Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Company’s remaining powers were transferred to the Crown. In the new British Raj (1858–1947), sovereignty extended to a few new regions, such as Upper Burma.
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Throughout the time of Company rule in India, 1757–1858, the Company constantly obtained autonomy over greater parts of India, now termed as Presidencies.
The Bengal Presidency which was founded in 1757–1912, later restructured as the Bengal Province in 1912– 1947, was formerly the largest division of British India, with its position in Calcutta Kolkata. It was basically located in the Bengal territory. It was the commercial, social and institutional center of the British Raj system.
Madras Presidency instituted 1640 and became one of three territories authorized by the East India Company. Following the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms of 1919, Madras was the chief territory of British India to achieve a method of dyarchy, and following its, Governor command besides a prime minister.
Bombay Presidency, also identified as Bombay from 1843 to 1936 was an official subclass often known as the presidency of British India. It was formed when the city of Bombay was hired in payment tailpiece to the East India Company by a Royal Permission from the King of Britain, Charles II, who had in turn procured it on May 11, 1661, when his matrimony treaty with Catherine of Braganza, has settled the islands of Bombay as property to the British kingdom, a portion of Catherine's dowry to Charles.